Special Event: Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)-Research Retreat 2014

May 1 - 3, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Organizers:
Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/CMU, hovy at andrew.cmu.edu
Cindy Hui, CCICADA/RPI, huic4 at rpi.edu
Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers, billp at dimacs.rutgers.edu
Dan Roth, CCICADA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, danr at uiuc.edu
Thomas Sharkey, CCICADA/RPI, sharkt at rpi.edu
William "Al" Wallace, CCICADA/RPI, wallaw at rpi.edu
James Wojtowicz, CCICADA/Rutgers
Presented under the auspices of the The Homeland Security Center for Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA).

Workshop Program:

Thursday, May 1, 2014
 2:00 -  2:15  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Joseph Kielman, Science and Technology Directorate
               U.S. Department of Homeland Security 

               Fred Roberts, Director of DHS Center of Excellence CCICADA
               Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 2:15 -  3:15  Invited Talk: The Probability of "Exploit": 
               Predictive Analytics & Agile Security Management
               Richard Seiersen, GE Global Research, General Manager
               Cyber Security & Privacy, GE Healthcare

 3:15 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:45  Presentations - Social MediaMonitor Social Buzz on the Map
                 Neha Pawar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

               • Discovering Opinion Networks in Social Media
                 Hongning Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

               • Social Media during Extreme Events 
                 Yulia Tyshchuk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 4:45 -  5:00  Break

 5:00 -  5:50  Presentation - Text MiningEntity-centric Document Filtering 
                 Mianwei Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

               • NewsNetExplorer: Antomatic Construction and Exploration of News Information Networks  
                 Fangbo Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 5:50 -  6:20  Break	

 6:20 -  8:00  Dinner
	       Introductions
               Interactive Discussion - Counter-terrorism and Deterrence
               James P. Wojtowicz, CCICADA Managing Director
               Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

Friday, May 2, 2014

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast
               Welcome

 9:00 - 10:15  Presentations - US Coast GuardDynamic Modeling for Arctic Resource Allocation 
                 Richard Garrett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

               • Optimal Boat Allocations with Sharing  
                 Brian Nakamura, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Global Optimization Model for the USCG Aviation Air Stations  
                 Christie Nelson, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

10:15 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:30  Invited Talk: Collaborative Training Tools for Emergency Restoration of Critical Infrastructure Systems 
               David Mendonca, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
               (with Barbara Cutler, William A. Wallace, James D. Brooks)
	       Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

11:30          EMPAC Tour
 
12:30 -  1:30  Lunch at Evelyn's Cafe

 1:30 -  2:30  Panel Discussion: How CCICADA Fits into the Big Data Landscape 
               Moderator: Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 
	       William "Al" Wallace, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute     
	       Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University
	       William Pottenger, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 
	       Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 2:30 -  2:45  Break

 2:45 -  4:00  Presentations - CybersecurityKnowledge Resources for Cybersecurity 
                 David Klaper, Carnegie Mellon University

               • User Oriented Cybersecurity 
                 Navneet Rao, Carnegie Mellon University

               • An Approximate Differential Privacy Mechanism for a Class of Graph Problems  
                 Kunikazu Yoda, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 4:00 -  4:15  Break (poster set-up)

 4:15 -  5:30  Presentation - VisualizationAnalysis Interface of Prostitution Networks 
                 Daniel Ribeiro Silva, Carnegie Mellon University

               • The Role of Session History in Visual Analytics 
                 Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

               • Visualization of Flocking Algorithms for Planning Evacuations 
                 in Case of Major Disasters
                 Ahlam and Sam Tannouri, Morgan State University

 5:30 -  6:30  Poster SessionJoint Modeling for Information Extraction  
                 Qi Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

               • Events in Social Media  
                 Hao Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

               • High Performance Numerical Solutions of Heat and Mass Transfer 
                 Simulation in Capillary Porous Media Using Programmable General 
                 Purpose Graphics Processing Units 
                 Fan Wu /Andrew Underwood, Howard University

               • Crowd Simulation on 3D Surfaces at Bus Terminals   
                 Brian Ricks, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Collective Tweet Wikification based on Semi-supervised Graph
                 Regularization  
                 Hongzhao Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute     

               • SWOT Analysis 
                 James Wojtowicz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Trust in Medical Websites 
                 Hurung Kibirige (Lila Ghemri), Texas Southern University

               • Modeling Microtext with Character n-grams and Higher Order
                 Learning 
                 Brian Knopp, Montana Tech of the University of Montana (Christie Nelson)

               • SemRel 
                 Jacob Geiger, Yale University

               • US Coast Guard Air Station Simulator 
                 Terrence Vaughn, Texas Southern University

               • ACCAM Simulation: US Coast Guard Air Station Simulator
                 Curtis McGinity, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Both Wide and Deep: Volumetric and Non-Linear Estimation of
                 Gthe FEMA payouts for flooding events 
                 Paul Kantor, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Malaria Incidence and Anopheles Mosquito Density in Irrigated
                 Gand Adjacent Non-Irrigated Villages of Niono in Mali
                 Moussa Doumbia, Howard University

 6:30 -  6:45  Break
 
 6:45 -  8:15  Dinner
               Invited Talk: The Lessons of Large Disasters for Humanitarian Logistics: Research Needs
               José Holguín-Veras, William H. Hart Professor
               Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

                 
Saturday, May 3, 2014

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:50  Sustainable Human Environments
               Fred S. Roberts, CCICADA Director, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 9:50 - 10:40  Presentations - Numerical MethodsKnowing Where to Knock: Cost Optimization for
                 Experiments that Evaluate Algorithms for Processing
                 Sensor Data
                 James Wojtowicz (for Paul Kantor), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • Applying Ranking and Selection Procedures to Network Mitigation 
                 Emily Heath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
10:40 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:50  Presentation - ApplicationsModeling the Impact of Patron Screening at an NFL Stadium 
                 Brian Ricks, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

               • An Approach to Modeling Bed Availability in Shelters for UAC 
                 Javier Rubio-Herrero, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

11:50          Closing Remarks
               Lunch (To go)


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